Born a Crime

“colored.” Colored people, black
people, white people, and Indian
people were forced to register their
race with the government. Based on
those classifications, millions of
people were uprooted and relocated.
Indian areas were segregated from
colored areas, which were
segregated from black areas—all of
them segregated from white areas
and separated from one another by
buffer zones of empty land. Laws
were passed prohibiting sex
between Europeans and natives,
laws that were later amended to
prohibit sex between whites and all
nonwhites.